America sells more weapons across the globe than any other country, and each year we send them to countries with records rife with human rights abuses.
Whether it’s Saudi Arabia’s use of American weapons in attacks on civilians in Yemen or the many coups in West Africa led by American-trained officers, these outcomes stoke greater instability and conflict, which only undermines America’s national interests around the world.
There ought to be a law against this. Fortunately, there is. Unfortunately, it isn’t enforced.
